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Male-led organizations will benefit from adopting structures and strategies similar to those now being created by women entrepreneurs that are sensitive to their employees ever-developing sense of how to make their careers and personal lives more compatible.

Content: Article | Author: Stacey van Hooven | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business

Unless we fully understand the theory or thinking that we held true when we created practices and procedures that we use presently, we will be forever condemned to create different versions of what we have always done.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Tate | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

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Content: Book | Authors: Margaret Corcoran, Roger E. Axtell, Tami Briggs | Subjects: International, Women in Business

Why do some management ideas take root and remain viable and others wither and die? This article offers four fundamental reasons:
– All organizations are, fundamentally, living social organisms;
– Organizational culture is more powerful than anything else;
– System-focused interventions work; component-centered interventions usually do not;
– Interventions clearly tied to business strategy work; interventions not … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: William E. Schneider | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A summary of key points found in the book ‘Change Is the Rule
Practical Actions for Change: On Target, On Time, On Budget’ by Winford E. “Dutch” Holland, Ph.D.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

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Content: Book | Author: Allison Rossett | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

This article is much more substantive than the title suggests, offering an anthropological analysis of organization types and their implications, drawing a corrolary to boards of directors in the end which leads to the discussion on CEO performance.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward F. Tuck, Timothy Earle | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Lynne C. Levesque | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Mildly scientific in its original conception, the selection interview first came into vogue around 100 years ago and remains the primary tool for hiring new employees. Researchers continue to debate how well this time-worn process works to find the best candidate for the job, and indeed if it works at all. M. Ronald Buckley and colleagues examine a century’s worth of theory and practice.

Content: Article | Authors: Amy Christine Norris, Danielle S. Wiese, M. Ronald Buckley | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Thoughtful managers sometimes face business problems that raise difficult questions. Sometimes these questions are matters of right versus right, not right versus wrong. There are three basic types of right-versus-right problems: those that raise questions about personal integrity and moral identity; conflicts between responsibilities for others and important personal values; and, perhaps the most challenging, those involving responsibilities that a company shares with … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
– In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.
– Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Business Rules, Organizational Behavior

Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Accountability

Global women leaders or global women managers? Women in leadership positions in the political arena around the world challenge not only leadership and management theories but also question the need to make a distinction between leaders and managers as well as the validity of such a distinction. Their paths to power are as varied as their socio-economic, educational, religious and family backgrounds as well as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Karin Klenke | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business

Content: Book | Authors: Bernard J. Mohr, Jane Magruder Watkins | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Management writers generally espouse the view that success is good, failure is bad and much time and effort is devoted to explaining how to achieve the former and avoid the latter. Not everyone agrees with this philosophy, though, and in embracing the ‘F’ word the author contends that failure and success are merely two sides of the same coin and that the one cannot exist … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: A L Donaldson-Briggs | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Our most basic choice, the one that ground all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom — or some combination of all three? That’s the only ultimate purpose or meaning that we can make sense of.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Accountability, Life